Day 576

• In another sign that Major League Baseball is still a White Man's Game at the top:  Jim Kaat is the latest announcer to have to apologize for a racial slur against a player of another race.
• Speaking of racial slurs, it appears that a 2011 email from Jon Gruden referencing current NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith to the head of the Washington Football Team contained slurs against Smith.  Why is this surfacing NOW?  Why didn't this surface, for the record, when Gruden was becoming coach of the Raiders again, to prevent him from doing so?   
• Speaking of Smith, after reports the NFLPA may not approve of him as the head of the union, Smith was, in fact, voted back in as the head of the player's union by it's Executive Committee yesterday.
• Eight arrested after fights and at least one shooting after a San Jose Earthquakes game Thursday night.
• And here comes Round 1 of "Let's Fuck The Cincinnati Bearcats":  1:02 to go in the first quarter, and Texas leads Oklahoma 28-7 in the annual Red River Shootout.  It's 38-20 at halftime.  41-23 with two minutes to go third quarter.
• Final score?  Oklahoma 55 - Texas 48 -- and that was a regulation final.  Oklahoma scored 29 points in just eight minutes and 52 seconds.  Gee, that get any closer to the November 26, 2010 Auburn comeback from 28-0 down to Alabama???

Matt Amodio Watch:

• Keeps chugging along.  20 shows this season, now.  19 lockouts of the 20.games (including, now, 14 in a row!), and another $50,000+ win for Amodio.  38 wins, and now he is only the tenth person to ever win $1.5 million on an American game show -- $1,518,601.
• Two interesting stats:  Of the 10 highest game-show winners in history, only three never appeared on Jeopardy!  Of the next ten, only one DID.
• And according to Jeopardy! archivist Andy Saunders:  As of last night, there have been 63 game wins of $50,000 or more.  James Holzhauer has 28 of them.  Ken Jennings had 11.  Matt Amodio, with last night's $50,800, just got his 12th.
• Average win:  $39,963.
• At present average:  Passes Curtis Warren for 9th, all shows, on MONDAY.  Needs a win of $28,388 or more to pass Warren.
• 8th and David Legler:  Next Monday:  October 18th.
• 7th, Ashlee Register, and the record for winnings of any player known to be only on one game show:  A week from Tuesday, October 19th.
• 6th, and the late Ed Toutant:  A week from Thursday, October 21st.
• $2,000,000:  13 more wins, 51 total, Wednesday, October 27th.
• Saunders' current streak projection (from his The Jeopardy Fan website):  54.4. Using 54, that would be 16 more wins and a total, on current average, of $2,158,011
• Two more wins after that (56), would pass Kevin Olmstead for 5th all-time all-shows.  But those two numbers get potentially into November, and that's where tournaments or other sweeps events could compromise the situation as to projecting dates.
• Jennings' $2,520,700 regular season winnings record:  63 wins, with Andrew Kravis' #4 on the all-shows list just a couple shows after that.
• Breaking Jennings' 74 wins with a 75th would be basically $3,000,000, with Holzhauer just above that number.